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Let's cut straight to the point: I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness' new video-- for Fear Is on Our Side's "The Owl"-- is an awesome thing, one of the best videos I've seen all year, without question. Director/animator Emmanuel Ho does a great job of creating a sense of both fear and anxiety by getting something as simple as the dilation of a crow's pupil down cold. Birds haven't been this creepy since Hitchcock.

And speaking of air travel, the band begins their European tour today, October 5 in Belgium, and they will go for over a month, playing shows all over the continent in the process.

"The Owl":

Dates:

10-05 Leuven, Belgium - Stuc
10-06 Groningen, Netherlands - Vera
10-07 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique *#
10-08 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso *#
10-09 Cologne, Germany - Gebäude 9
10-10 Hamburg, Germany - Uebel & Gefährlich
10-11 Lund, Sweden - Mejeriet
10-12 Oslo, Norway - Betong
10-13 Gothenburg, Sweden - Pusterviksbaren
10-14 Stockholm, Sweden - Fritz's Corner *
10-16 Berlin, Germany - Magnet Club *
10-17 Stuttgart, Germany - Schocken *
10-18 Lausanne, Switzerland - La Romandie *
10-19 Basel, Switzerland - Das Schiff *
10-20 Bologna, Italy - Il Covo
10-21 Rome, Italy - Circolo degli Artisti
10-22 Pescara, Italy - Rude Club
10-24 Munich, Germany - Orangehouse
10-25 Strasbourg, France - La Laiterie
10-26 Dijon, France - Atheneum
10-27 Nevers, France - Festival Nevers à Vif
10-28 Tourcoing, France - Le Grand Mix
10-29 Paris, France - La Maroquinerie
10-30 Nantes, France - L'Olympic
10-31 London, England - The Luminaire
11-01 Dublin, Ireland - Whelan's ^
11-02 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Speakeasy Bar (Queen's University) ^
11-03 Glasgow, Scotland - King Tut's ^
11-04 Nottingham, England - Stealth ^
11-05 Leeds, England - The Cockpit ^
11-06 Bristol, England - Thekla ^
11-09 Castellon, Spain - Tanned Tin Festival

* with Parts and Labor
# with Hidden Cameras
^ with Catfish Haven